Horn-support.



No. 862,554; PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907. E. c. GOLDSMITH.

HORN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAR. 24, 1907.

WITNESSES 6f INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

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EDWIN O. GOLDSMITH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORN -SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed January 24, 1907. Serial N0. 353,802.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN C. GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State 01' Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseiul Improvements in Horn-Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improved devices for supporting the horn of a phonograph, and more particularly to such devices or appliances as are adapted to sustain extremely long and large horns which project far forward of the phonographic instrument.

The particular object of the present invention is to provide horn supporting devices which are of the simplest possible character and construction,which are susceptible of very inexpensive construction, and which by reason of the particular arrangements for adjustments are capable of holding the horn in any desired line of extension relatively to the phonograph.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts and the constructions of the parts as hereinafter described in conjunction with the accompanying drawing and set forth in the claims.

In the drawing,the figure is a perspective view of a portion of the phonograph, its horn, and the improved horn supporting devices.

In the drawing,A represents the case or cabinet of a phonograph, and B represents a bracket having a de tachable and adjustable connection with the base portion of the case. The said bracket is provided with an upstanding member it having a vertical and upwardly opening socket therein leading to which through the wall of the member a is a set screw 1). A vertical stem (Z is fitted in said socket and is capable of a rotative adjustment, the same when acquired to be fixed by the set screw b. The said stem has formed as one therewith an arm (Z extended horizontally angularly from the phonograph case at a level below the desired position of the horn C. The said horizontal arm has formed on or attached to its free end a member f comprising an axial vertical sleeve to which is provided a set screw 9 engaging through the wall thereof.

A rigid rod h is fitted through, and vertically adjustable relatively to, the sleeve member f and may be maintained at any desired height adjustment by the set screw g. Mounted on the upper end of the said rod is an appliance comprising a vertical limb j having a downwardly opening socket 7c thercin,which is fitted to swivel on the upper end of said vertical rod,-and a sleeve member m having the opening at thcrethrough extending in a line oblique to the length of said vertical rod, and a set screw 0 is screw engaged readily through the wall of said axially oblique sleeve. The horn supporting rod or arm t is fitted through the last named sleeve member m and is longitudinally adjustable relatively therethrough and carries at its end a suspension support for the horn, the same in the present instance being shown as a short length of chain a.

The part (I and its arm (F. the vertical member 7i and the oblique member t may, some or all thereof, be c011- stituted by solid round metallic rods, or they may be in whole or in part formed tubular for lightness.

The described adjustments and capabilities of extensions and distentions of the supporting parts are all sufficient to enable a person to support the'horn at any angle and at any angle of inclination as reckoned both from the horizontal plane and the longitudinal front edge line of the phonograph case; and this phonograph support is most desirable and highly satisfactory because of the simplicity thereof and the ease with which it can be adapted to all desired conditions. It may also be quickly dismantled, and the parts compactly disposed, requiring but small space therefor.

1. In a horn supporting device for phonographs, a bracket for attachment to a phonograph case. a vertical stem supported by said bracket, :1 long substantially horizontal arm carried by said stem, a substantially vertical rod supported by said arm, a sleeve swiveled to rotate on the top of said rod and having its bore disposed angularly with reference thereto, and a horn-supporting arm mounted slidably in the bore of said sleeve, whereby said hornsupporting arm may be swung from side to side and also adjusted in and out.

2. In a horn supporting device for phonogrnphs, a bracket for attachment to a phonograph case, a vertical stem supported by said bracket, :1 long substantially horizontal arm carried by said stem, a substantially vertical rod supported by said arm, an inclined sleeve having a dependingsocketed stem fitting loosely and removably over the top of said rod to swivel thereon, and an inclined hornsupporting arm mounted slidably in said sleeve.

In a horn supporting device for phonographs, a bracket for attachment to a phonograph case, an integral bent rod consisting of a short vertical stem supported by said bracket and a long substantially horizontal arm, a sleeve mounted on the outer end of said arm and formed with a vertical bore, a straight vertical rod slidable in said here, an inclined sleeve having :l depending socketed stem Swivcled on the top of said red, and an inclined horn-supporting :irm mounted slidably in said sleeve.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDXVIN C. GOLDSMITH.

Witnesses Wit. S. BELLOWS, G. R. DRISCOLL. 

